The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we… — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable. — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in demons," he murmured, "but only in my Father Who is in Heaven. Only in Him - and in my… — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure… — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
“Youth is the time for dreams, boy...The trick is, when you get older, not to forget them. —Captain John Winters” — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need. — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is… — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
“Derangement - reasoned derangement: that was the key. To break the mould, the chains, the bars that held the flesh and the spirit; to throw off the blinds, the slings, the splints and trusses with which life binds us; to derange and twist and destroy the whole fabric of the prison, and to emerge whole and free. He was not… — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share
“He climbed through the vast stillness, alone...and yet somehow, he knew, no longer alone. For now his two fathers climbed with him.” — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
“I think that deep inside yourself, in your heart, you're a Puritan. Yes, a Puritan. Or an ascetic; a sort of hermit monk. I… — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
“It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is… — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
“The truth was not always pleasant. It did not always have good manners and clean its fingernails. Sometimes it was in the eyes of… — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
